Chapter 76: Chapter 72 Hello, Shen Qingning_2
“Brother Zhu, many stores have started posting their own manga-style seller shows! These copycats are really pissing me off!”
“It doesn’t matter, there’s no stopping it, as long as we keep leading in popularity, that’s fine. Besides, my specially designed new models are coming up next.”
This style of manga had become a net-wide sensation, thanks in part to “Persistent Visit.”
Adding to that, the store was already experiencing a surge in orders, combining the two, the profits over the past few days had already matched last month’s total revenue.
With this momentum, it would be easy to break into the top ten in the category.
Next, Cheng Zhu was confident he could set the trend with a batch of trendy new products.
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You think the stepmother skirt is my trump card?
That’s just an appetizer!
With so many QQ lingerie styles used in his past life, how could he not know which ones looked good and worked well?
—Practice makes perfect! The key was in the execution!
“In the coming years, we have to make as much money as possible. The e-commerce platform will only become more competitive. In a few years, opening this kind of store won’t work with this model; it’ll be outdated, and we’ll need new strategies,” Cheng Zhu thought to himself.
“Not focusing on domestic sales and instead exporting could be an option,” he considered.
After chatting a bit more about work with Wang Anquan, he began to inquire about his little brother’s college life.
“Brother Zhu, I’m doing great. Everyone in my dorm calls me Brother Anquan now.”
“Brother Anquan, what kind of silly name is that?”
“It’s not bad, right? It sounds pretty imposing?”
Wang Anquan was also studying in Hang City, but it was quite far from Technology University, and his school was somewhat lesser in reputation.
However, Cheng Zhu thought since he had just sent him a sizable salary, and he’d grown up a bit, there was no reason he wouldn’t be able to make his way in university.
What he didn’t know was that Wang Anquan had taken many of his big brother’s valuable sayings to heart and saved them in his notes.
He had not expected that he’d end up using them right at the start of the semester.
Their school started three days earlier than Technology University. On the first day, his dormmates were discussing their love lives.
One roommate’s situation was similar to Wang Anquan’s past experiences, with the girl being hot and cold, leading to an unhappy ending and the feeling of being a backup.
Upon hearing this, Wang Anquan immediately looked out the window with a profound gaze and said in a low tone, “When showering, if the water suddenly turns from hot to cold, you know, someone else is using the water supply.”
In a word, definitive!
He had memorized all these sayings from Cheng Zhu and had finally found the opportunity to use them!
His roommates let out howls of understanding.
We get it! You’re way too savvy!
From then on, he became Brother Anquan in the dorm, with everyone asking him to safeguard their love lives!
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At night, dormitory 309’s dorm president Dong Dong began organizing the first team-building activity—online gaming at the internet café!
But Cheng Zhu rejected it again.
“Ah? Cheng, you’re not joining again?” Dong Dong was taken aback.
“I have some things to do tonight,” Cheng Zhu replied.
“Well, okay then,” they said, not wanting to insist.
Deep down, the three of them felt Cheng Zhu’s relationship with them was somewhat distant.
They seemed close during daily interactions, but felt like they were not quite in the same world.
As they left the dorm and headed to the internet café, they delved into this topic.
“I always feel like when Cheng is with us, it’s like he’s… what’s the word, something about up and down?” Dong Dong couldn’t remember the phrase.
The stoic and plump Zheng Qingfeng casually said, “Backward compatibility.”
“Yeah! It always feels like he’s being backward compatible!”
Liu Feng, walking beside them, remained silent. He had long been calling him Brother Zhu, and it wasn’t without reason.
Looking at the tree-lined avenues of the campus, he thought to himself, “I must have taken a wider path.”
Meanwhile, Cheng Zhu took a moment to rest and meditate for ten minutes after his roommates left.
Now, “Persistent Visit” was thriving, with a very rosy outlook.
He planned to continue investing in the store, and necessary operating expenses could not be skimped on.
But he was now able to draw some profit from it.
“How should I spend it, how to make money from money?” he pondered.
Suddenly, he remembered his debt to Little Youzi for the milk tea and claw machine store.
He got up from the bed, ready to look around the street outside the school.
He was more inclined to start with a small claw machine shop.
As he had said before, this thing was just about making a quick buck. At the time, it had not been done much, and just a little operation could turn it into an internet-famous store.
Some things are just weird like that.
Which game arcade doesn’t have claw machines?
But if a shop has only claw machines, all claw machines, it strangely draws a female crowd and becomes an internet-famous check-in spot.
The trendsetting noodle cafeterias were like that too, presenting a similar vibe.
Cheng Zhu was also aware that a claw machine shop didn’t have a future and wouldn’t make much money or last very long.
But that was precisely what he wanted.
In his plan, the store wasn’t about making big money; it was about getting a feel.
Feeling the process of earning money from the youth and getting to know the young people of 2014 better.
Some things, if done with future concepts in mind, might not succeed.
Being too advanced can actually be detrimental; discussing it without considering the context of the time is foolish.
Moreover, in his past life, his main focus was online, and he had less experience with offline investments.
“Of course, it’s definitely not because once this kind of store becomes an internet sensation, it will become a hit across University City, attracting countless young women for check-ins, with girls coming in a steady stream every day.”
“Definitely not!”
“I’m just a good brother fulfilling my little sister’s wish for a claw machine, what bad intentions could I have?”
On a somewhat warm evening, Cheng Zhu leisurely made his way to the streets outside the campus.
Along the way, a girl even added him as a friend for her shy friend.
This is a common approach in university where girls initiate contact with guys, usually not a pretense of befriending a stranger; good-looking guys should have experienced this.
Sometimes, such encounters can send you dreaming, wondering if her unseen friend is pretty.
When Cheng Zhu arrived on the street, he looked around, scouting the area.
While looking around, he saw a familiar figure in a nearby fruit shop.
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Shen Qingning, all by herself, was selecting fruits with her head down.
The key point here, Lin Lu wasn’t with her, she was temporarily alone.
The light fell on her, and this girl with naturally pale and cool skin shone even more under the illumination.
She bent slightly, and as her long hair impeded her view, she reached back to brush it behind her ear.
Several strands of playful hair that didn’t stay in place draped beside her face. As the air conditioning breeze blew through, they danced in the wind, adding an air of untamed yet breath-taking beauty.
See, beautiful people, even the wind and light seem to be more considerate around them.
Cheng Zhu walked into the shop with a smile, thinking back to the rumors about them in the forums.
Shen Qingning, having selected a piece of “Bird’s Nest Fruit,” slowly looked up; she had mild myopia and usually wore contact lenses, occasionally glasses, which she had left in the car today.
Thus, when she looked at the newcomer, she squinted slightly, appearing a bit confused, which diminished her typically cool demeanor.
Seeing this, Cheng Zhu couldn’t help but grin and simply greeted her, prompting her somewhat dazed eyes to suddenly widen in the bright shop light, gleaming radiantly:
“Hello there, rumored girlfriend.”